Risk & Control Consultant, Adviser Vector

6 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1825 Full time

Job Description
- At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.
- Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.
- We are structured around three businesses - Investments, Adviser and Personal - focused on the changing needs of our clients, and by diversifying the group, we are positioning ourselves for growth in a changing investment landscape.
- The Adviser vector strategy is to deliver client-led growth and help advisory businesses to thrive, so they can help their clients prosper. The vector operates via four key pillars - Growth, Operations, Control and Sales. The Control pillar aims to deliver a world class control service for the abrdn Adviser business via a philosophy of being Simple, Client-Focused, Modern, Efficient, and Scalable and Forward-Looking.

About the Client & Business Control Team

The Client & Business Control Team protects our client and customer journeys, making us the Platform of choice; supporting our business growth strategy through efficiency and lower cost to control; and creating a robust and safe environment for our colleagues to provide outstanding performance.

About the Role

Reporting directly to the Head of Conduct & Control, the Risk & Control Consultant ensures key priorities are delivered to the highest standards and on a timely basis. They will primarily support the Adviser Business to ensure effective adherence to our Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERFM). This is a first line of defence risk and governance role and will often require stretching across multiple Principal risks to ensure adherence to regulation and policies including Consumer Duty and Conduct.

In this role, key responsibilities will include:
- Adviser Vector reporting and governance, including the Adviser Control Forum, Board Risk Committee and Board Papers.- Developing the use of data, key risk indicators, digital metrics, and control assessments to provide evidence-based assurance of a robust control environment and policy adherence.- Promoting and encouraging a risk culture, through risk management awareness and accountability, that aligns with the strategic drivers and behaviours of the vector and wider Group.- Ensure strong compliance with ERMF across the end-to-end processes of the vector and supporting AET in demonstrating compliance with key policies and standards.- Act as the Subject Matter Expert of key risk frameworks and key standards and policies including EMRF, Risk and Control Self-Assessment, Conduct Risk etc.- Strong stakeholder management and influence with internal teams and second and third lines of defence.- Working closely with wider team to ensure tasks are delivered timely and to a high standard.

What we're looking for

Essential- Experience as a risk and control practitioner in first or second line of defence risk management roles.- Communicates effectively with others at all levels of seniority across the organisation and an ability to influence others.- An excellent set of analytical and pragmatic skills, naturally inclined to challenge current processes and seek to constantly improve things to ensure we deliver best in class controls.- Strong data manipulation and reporting skills required (Excel, PowerBI, Powerpoint etc.)- Excellent report writing or desire to learn how to produce high quality reporting and governance papers with limited input from Head of Conduct & Control.- Highly driven and motivated, able to work independently to ensure the timely and consistent delivery of agreed outcomes.- Excellent interpersonal skills and relationship stakeholder management skills.- Good commercial awareness and inquisitive nature, looking ahead to best practice in the industry and constantly striving to improve our processes and drive the culture forwards.

Desirable- Operational risk management experience or qualification/certification desired.- Previous experience of risk and control self-assessment and/or assurance type activity would be a plus or interest to develop in this area.

Our Benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around, including 40 days annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount site amongst many others.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define divers

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